What Happens in 2012?

A bit of light relief from Gather:

Jersey Shore star Snooki seems to think that the economy is bad because “2012 is coming.” Does the starlet have the right idea? Are things going to hell in a hand basket because people are fearful of solar flares, tsunamis, and mass chaos in 2012?

“The economy is really scary, because 2012 is coming,” Snooki tells The Wall Street Journal in a recent interview. “I feel like the first thing that’s going to happen… is a blackout and then everyone freaks out and the world goes crazy. So hopefully, Obama will take care [of the economy] before 2012.”

It’s doubtful that even Obama will be able to save the economy before 2012. The most likely scenario is that things will get worse as 2012 approaches and more and more people become afraid that the end of the world is coming. The Mayan prophecy that the end will be on December 21, 2012 is quite different from a preacher saying the end is coming. As a result, more people believe that the world is in for one heck of a ride in 2012. Could they be right?

Snooki may have a point. Though she may be loud and drunk on most episodes of the Jersey Shore, the pint-sized star could be pretty accurate on this one. Oddly enough, she hasn’t spent much of the millions she has earned on the hit reality show. Is she saving up for her own Doomsday shelter? She may seem stupid and vain, but when it comes to the end of the world and saving herself and her family, it wouldn’t be surprising if she is saving her money for when she’ll really need it.

Perhaps the most disturbing aspect of this story is Snooki is being interviewed by The Wall Street Journal!

The end of the world really is nigh…

You’d be plain STUPID to ignore all of the ‘natural’ disasters that have hit in the past few years!

WARNING: These numbers may be extremely disturbing.

Since 1995 The Frequency & Severity Of Storms Has Drastically Increased.

In 2004, there was the tsunami. At least 227,898 dead. Followed by the destruction of New Orleans by Hurricane Katrina in 2005.

2006 brought terrible mudslides in the Philippines. In 2008 there were blizzards in China and Afghanistan, not to mention Cyclone Nargis in Myanmar (146,000 dead).

Most recently, the 2010 Haitian Earthquake, followed by the massive Chilean Earthquake had terrible consequences.

Over 231,000 fatalities and counting between them.

As if that wasn’t enough, unfortunately, a byproduct of plate movements and earthquakes is… volcanic activity.

March 20, 2010 the Icelandic volcano Eyjafjallajökull erupted, completely shutting down much of Europe’s air space.

Every other time Eyjafjallajökull has erupted, her big sister, Katla, hasn’t been far behind.

If Katla erupts we’d be dealing with far more than some closed air space.

But that’s not the scariest part.

Ever hear of Yellowstone National Park? Smack-dab in the middle of the United States is one of the largest caldera volcanoes in the world.

What would happen if Yellowstone’s super-volcano erupted?

Global winter, loss of crops, and large scale death due to starvation. Not to mention the fact that it’s 53 mile wide mouth would spew enough magma and ash to decimate the nation from coast to coast.

I’m not telling you all of this to scare you. But honestly…

Are you ready for something like this?

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Written by Luis Feliu for the Tweed Shire Echo
Thursday, 05 May 2011

For years we’ve been getting used to the idea that the world will end in 2012, as predicted by the Mayan calendar.

However, Christian fundamentalists, in an effort to increase their share of the loony market, have now gone one better than the priests of Quetzalcóatl.

Billboards are springing up all over the USA announcing that Judgment Day will be May 21, 2011, followed by the End of the World on October 21.

That doesn’t give us a lot of time to prepare, but if you diligently search the internet you will discover not only the irrefutable calculations based on Old Testament generations that have led fearless researchers to this date, but also the heartening news that “by God’s grace and tremendous mercy, He is giving us advanced warning as to what He is about to do. On Judgment Day, May 21, 2011, a five-month period of horrible torment will begin for all the inhabitants of the earth…”

The saved will be bodily resurrected while the damned have their body parts scattered all over the place. The websites do not say if God has anything special prepared for the official End of the World on October 21 – sausage sizzles and fireworks perhaps.

Yes, it is easy to sneer. Probably not one person in our community believes that Jesus Christ plans to return on May 21. But the American loonies merely inhabit the extreme end of a generally irrational set of views. They serve a useful purpose if they remind us that all religious assertions, particularly apocalyptic ones, should be challenged in the light of what we know rather than what some of us might like to believe.

God is made in our image of course, and for the spiteful bigots who are spreading this Judgment Day nonsense, God is spiteful and bigoted. But although a doomsday calendar compiled according to Bronze Age history is laughable, in America there are many weak-minded people who believe in the inerrancy of the Bible, in the daily interaction of men and angels, and in the imminent apocalypse. And there is such a thing as a self-fulfilling prophecy.

Let us hope that when Judgment Day comes around in a couple of weeks there aren’t any Christian halfwits in command of a nuclear silo.

It’s nearly 300 million miles away and barreling toward us. The intruder from deep space, called called comet Elenin, crosses Earth’s orbit on its inbound leg and again on its outbound swing around the sun later this year.

Russian astronomer Leonid Elenin discovered the innocuous little comet on Dec. 10, 2010, at International Scientific Optical Network’s robotic observatory near Mayhill, New Mexico.

Presently the comet is a faint smudge of light in deep sky exposures. By late August comet Elenin should be visible to the naked eye as a dim “fuzzy star” with a tail. Over a few weeks the visitor will speed across the spring constellation Virgo and toward Leo on its outbound leg.

Cometgate

A dizzying collection of doomsday predictions have been linked to comet Elenin. The hysteria was inevitable as anxiety grows over the approach of 2012 – that is supposedly a game-changing year for life on Earth. At least according to some interpretations of the ancient Mayan calendar.

If you believe the gobbledygook on numerous websites and YouTube videos, this is a “renegade comet” that just couldn’t wait for 2012 to mess with the Earth.

Though it’s now over twice as far away from Earth than the sun is, comet Elenin has already been blamed for triggering earthquakes and shifting Earth’s rotation axis. The comet has also been accused of melting ice on Mars and stirring up a storm on Saturn. It’s predicted to flip Earth’s magnetic field.

And that’s just the beginning. There are numerous “Cometgate” allegations of news media and government cover-up, and the existence of hidden comet shelters for U.S. officials.

The timing of the MESSENGER spacecraft’s deceleration in orbit around Mercury last week is also suspect because our innermost planet supposedly “aligns” with the comet’s position this month.

Reality Check

Comet Elenin will sweep nearest to Earth on Oct. 16 at a distance of 21 million miles and be moving fast enough to travel the distance from Earth to the moon in under five hours!

The effects of the comet on Earth at closest approach will be as inconsequential as that of a mosquito slamming head-on into an ocean-going supertanker.

Let’s look at the physics. Comet Elenin is a loose agglomeration of volatile ices and dust a few miles across. It is therefore one hundred billionth the mass of our moon. (The relative difference is roughly the same as the mass of a mosquito vs. the mass of an oil supertanker.)

The comet will pass no closer to us than 84 times the Earth-moon distance.

Applying Isaac Newton’s laws of gravity, this means the comet’s tidal pull on Earth — at closest approach — will be approximately one-hundred trillionth the force of the moon’s tidal pull on Earth. And, we all now know that despite the dreaded Supermoon hype last week, there were no monster storms or earthquakes triggered by our satellite’s gravitational tug at closest approach to Earth.

Comet-Kazi

What’s more, comets get the worst end of the deal when they venture near larger bodies — just like that mosquito slamming into the supertanker.

Some comets dive-bomb the sun routinely. What happens? They disintegrate into pieces.

The same held true for comet Shoemaker-Levy 9 that was ripped apart by tidal forces when it ventured too close to Jupiter. When the comet pieces plunged into Jupiter in 1994, the planet simply belched a few mushroom clouds from titanic impact explosions.

On May 11, 1983 comet IRAS-Araki-Alcock swept within 3 million miles of Earth –- one of the closest comet approaches in modern times. The visitor looked as big as the full moon and sped across a wide swath of sky in just a few days.

That same day saw an explosion of protests in Santiago, Chile against the decade-long rule of General Augusto Pinochet. Unless you’re an astrologer, the comet’s influence was not to blame.

The closest ever-recoded flyby of Earth was comet Lexell in 1770, which passed at 1.4 million miles. On Jan. 26th that year a magnitude 9 earthquake took place off the west coast of the North America.

Similarly, many coincidences will happen this year that people will want to blame on comet Elenin. The most bizarre link is that the comet’s closest approach to the sun happens on the 10th anniversary of the combined terrorist attacks on the U.S. “Is it a coincidence that Elenin could be seen as “Elevennine” (9/11 backwards)?” asks one conspiracy website.

In the cosmic scheme of things, comet Elenin is simply a nice target for backyard sky watchers to follow. But Earth as a planet isn’t phased at all.

From MPNnow.com:

By Jim Hillibish
GateHouse News Service

Things are shaping up for 2012. There’s potential that this may be the year of the century. I sure hope so. I’m pretty bored right now.
First off, the Mayan calendar ends with that year, prompting various talk-show hosts to predict this is the end of the world – no, dummies, they just ran out of stone. It’s amazing their calendar lasted this long.

Supposedly, there are some words in the Bible that confirm this Armageddon, but there are words in the Bible for everything. And don’t forget Rasputin.

Still, something may happen next year that will blow your socks off. We’re talking two suns in the sky at the same time, and probably no night on Earth for months. This is not a TV preacher speaking, and it’s not Internet bloggerish. Astronomers, including Dr. Brad Carter, of Australia, believe it’s important to prepare us for this.

One of the night’s brightest stars, Betelgeuse, has been watched for centuries. As a kid, I looked at it with my telescope and kept a notebook of observations. It made for an “A” science fair project.

The star seems to be vibrating out there, getting brighter and dimmer and changing color, even in a cheap telescope.

Indeed, the star has problems. It’s burning mass and collapsing. Any day now it could explode, creating a super nova millions of times brighter than our sun.

U.S. astronomer Dr. Phil Plait adds there’s no way to tell when this might happen, but the star is on a short fuse. It may blow tonight, or it might not be for 100,000 years. Rats.

The media, bless their breathless pens, is not good at predicting Armageddon. They stopped sending out asteroid warnings after the New York Times on its front page offered a date and time for an impact – falsely. Warnings now come from documentary-disaster producers on the History Channel.

The big blow will flood Earth with neutrinos, but not to worry because the energy should pass right through us. It could actually be beneficial. Remember the Big Bang Theory that created Earth?

The Chinese documented the last star explosion about 1,000 years ago. There were two suns and no nights for weeks. They got over it, and we probably will, too.

Meanwhile, there’s nothing more fun to write about than the end of the world.

The news that the star Betelgeuse is about to explode so spectacularly that it will appear as a second sun in our sky has been floating around the Internet for several months. But it gained credibility this week when a physics lecturer at the University of South Queensland, Australia, was quoted as saying that such an event could happen next year, which happens to be when the Mayan calendar runs out. Many have said that 2012 will be the end of the world. The possibility of a supernova adds weight to those who believe the Mayan apocalypse prophecy.

Betelgeuse is a bright red supergiant star positioned in the right shoulder of the constellation Orion, the hunter, and easily seen in the night sky at this time of the year, rising in the east right after sunset.

A Miami astronomer begs to differ, at least on some of the details.

“We’ve known for a very long time that Betelgeuse is massive enough to end its life as a supernova,” said Carolyn Simpson, physics professor at Florida International University in Miami.

As for when this will happen, you can sit outside tonight and get a ringside seat for the event, but it could be a long wait.

“It could go supernova in the next five minutes, or in a million years,” said Simpson, who has a Ph.D in astronomy and loves debunking scientific misinformation. “We have no way of telling.”

And it won’t be as bright as our sun, though it could be brighter than a full moon – at night. It would be visible in the daytime, looking like a bright star or a pinprick in the daytime sky, then fading over days or weeks, Simpson said.

That might not sound like much, but it would be the only time such an event has occurred since the year 1054, when the Crab Nebula exploded.

“It will be the brightest star in the sky other than our sun,” said Jim Kimball, president of the Astronomical Society of the Palm Beaches. “That will be extremely impressive.”

As for the 2012 connection, “The Mayan thing, that’s just whacked,” said Simpson, who says that the Internet and instant media is at least partly responsible for connecting the very real possibility of Betelgeuse exploding with the scientifically questionable date for the end of the world.

“We’re humans, that’s what we do,” Simpson said. “We are pattern-finding creatures. It’s our strongest survival mechanism. Randomness makes us nervous, so sometimes we find patterns where none exist.”

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In case you missed it, and I doubt you did, author Dan Brown has a new novel called The Lost Symbol. In his new thriller, Brown discusses an area of research that I had never heard of – noetic science.

Cassandra Vieten, the director of research at the Institute of Noetic Sciences, describes noetic science as:

“A multidisciplinary field that brings objective scientific tools and techniques together with subjective inner knowing to study the full range of human experience.”

So what does that mean? Noetic scientists tackle experiments like testing the efficacy of prayer or the existence of a soul.

In The Lost Symbol we learn that the field has made some massive discoveries and when these discoveries are made public, they will change the world; humanity will evolve and become aware of the it’s group consciousness.

Every writer draws inspiration from somewhere, in the case of The Lost Symbol, much of the spiritual aspects Dan Brown recounts in the book can be found in Mayan writings. I have selected a few fascinating paragraphs from

The Mayan Prophecies for 2012 by Gerald Benedict.

…The Prophets predicted a time when their ancient hidden knowledge would be recovered and given to the world by a future generation of elders and time keepers…

…The [Mayan] Prophecy speaks of a collective spiritual amnesia from which our civilization suffers, and it refers, in modern terminology, to what is called “recovered memory”. Once our memory of cosmic wisdom has been retrieved, we will have a deeper understanding of who we are, and of our relationship with Nature and the universe…

…Every human being can, by birthright, achieve cosmic consciousness, but the teaching tells us that some form of initiation or guidance is helpful…

…Western culture’s sensitivity to “place” has been numbed by fundamentalism and the politics of institutional religion and sectarianism. We no longer sense the numinous power and holiness of the sacred sites…

…Once we have recovered the memory of our rightful place in the universe, together with our sense of unity with it, humanity will, once again, have the means of realizing its spiritual potential and of solving the problems with which it is faced…

…Despite the persistent execution of their prophets and teachers by the Spanish colonizers, and the destruction of all but a few of their sacred codices, the Maya were able to preserve their traditional wisdom literature. The Prophecy speaks of our urgent need of teachers who, by sharing this recovered wisdom, will lead us back to the basic, but ominously neglected sources of self-fulfillment, and of life itself…

…We have given our minds over to the technology it has invented. It is generally accepted that we have never developed the genetic potential with which we are born…

“A simple theory of consciousness can be advanced by accepting that the mental is a property of matter” ~ Piero Scaruffi

“I am Another Yourself” ~ Lak’ech, the Yucatec Mayan Code of Honour

“We must all hang together, or, most assuredly we shall all hang separately” ~ Benjamin Franklin

News reports earlier this year warned that solar storms coming in 2012 will cripple electric power, GPS equipment and communications systems for months, creating an electronic apocalypse not dreamt of since the days before Y2k hysteria gripped the world. Those reports have spread throughout a blogosphere already saturated with hype about the Hollywood disaster flick 2012.

The truth is more complicated.

Solar storms bombard the Earth’s magnetic field with bursts of radiation, which can in turn disrupt the power grid and satellites. In fact, “the great geomagnetic storm of March 1989″ zapped northeastern Canada’s Hydro-Quebec power grid, leaving millions of people without electricity for up to nine hours, according to a National Academy of Sciences report.

In a worst-case scenario, a solar storm could cause $1 trillion to $2 trillion in damage to the world’s high-tech infrastructure, the 2008 report said.

But the severity of the next solar storm is unclear, as is the timing.

Several years ago, NASA predicted that the peak in the next cycle of solar weather would occur in 2012 – a date that coincidentally aligned with other forecasts of doom. The space agency’s more recent prediction (made May 29) said the peak for sunspot activity will be in May 2013 – though additional revisions are expected.

So data center managers need to keep an eye on space weather, just as they keep an eye on terrestrial weather!

A mysterious book of cryptic prophecies has been discovered at the National Library in Rome, and there is evidence to suggest that it is the final work of the most famous and controversial prophet in the history of the world, Nostradamus. Even more startling than the discovery of the book, though, are the warnings it contains, which were so blasphemous and frightening in their time that they may have been intentionally suppressed until now.

A new History Channel special – LOST BOOK OF NOSTRADAMUS – examines the life’s work of Nostradamus and the evidence and contents of this startling discovery.

The predictions of Nostradamus were in agreement with the scientist of today that the solar system will pass through the galactic plane of the Milky Way galaxy, as the earth enters its 25,800 year precession. When this happens, the gravitational wave, which exist as a flat plane along the equatorial region of the milky way sends this across any passing solar system, including Earth and the Sun, causing earthquakes in both Sun and all the planets. In this region there are broken planets and asteroids that may cause near massive object collision with earth, but also as the solar system passes the equatorial region will the planets, including earth shifts its rotation.

According to Nostradamus, when this passes, whole continents will be under water in a matter of 6-10 hours, where most of Asia will be underwater, but also other coastal regions. The land will sink fast and responsible for most of the destruction, but during this passing the Earth will lose its orbit around the sun, massive earthquakes starts from the polar shifts and gravitational waves bringing on earthquake and sinking of continents.

Nostradamus predicted land sinking very quickly, solar flares, gamma radiation during the passing of the equatorial plane of the Galaxy. This rift is located between the zodiac sign of the Sagittarius and Scorpio. The arrows of the Sagittarius points to the dark rift, which is the gravitational waves emitting from the black hole, and incident which happens every 11,000 years, an event where the drawings of Nostradamus predicted three eclipses before this event to occur.

The culmination of this event is expected to occur similar to the Mayans on 21 December 2012. It should be noted that gravitational waves causes earthquakes both on the Sun and Earth and its frequency increases dramatically as we approach closer to 2012, starting late 1990s. When this happens the Sun experiencing earthquakes sends out massive solar flares to the earth with more frequency and the earth should have experience global cooling, due to the sun spot cycle,which it didn’t because of the frequency of solar flares. As a result global warming will accelerate.

According to Nostradamus, people will experience both extreme fire, heat from global warming, which technically is more like solar system warming, but this gets to the extreme as 2012 approaches, most of the polar ice caps should melt as this time frame approaches, not just rising of water level, but lands can sink or rise as polar shifts event occur. Near massive objects and meteorites may occur due to the weakening of the Van Allen Belts, foreseen by Nostradamus to mentioned. Where people who do not experience flooding, they will experience fire and burning from solar flares and fire, where high areas are risk, and low areas at risk from flooding.

Interestingly, Nostradamus points the entry of the Age of Aquarius, after 21 December 2012. During this period major wars will escalate for resources, according to Nostradamus, between the Christians and the Muslims faith. The Pope is prominent in Nostradamus lost books, but interestingly the three rings on the head of the pope, might have signifies the three rings of Power, that controls most of the world, Washington D.C., City of London, and the Vatican. All three locations have the Egyptian obelisks, and important high level secret society symbolism that they are indeed connected in power, that people called the New World Order, but this power is not shared with the Muslim world, China, or Russia, and hence the war, that some say is the Armageddon.